JOHANNESBURG – Government should come up with a plan to ensure no jobs were lost in the coal sector while power utility Eskom prepared to go into partnerships with independent power producers (IPP), the Congress of SA Trade Unions said on Wednesday. The trade union federation said it supported a march by hundreds of coal […]
The Press Ombudsman has ordered the Sunday Times to retract a story the news paper ran in which it claimed Molefe had “claimed that he had been visiting a shebeen in Saxonwold”. Press Ombudsman said in a statement that Sunday Times had breached the SA Code of Ethics and Conduct which requires the media to report […]
The Democratic Alliance (DA) on Thursday said that the swearing in of former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe as a member of parliament is a “major escalation in the civil war” between the President Jacob Zuma and the national Treasury. The strong worded statement comes after Molefe was signed in as an MP earlier on Thursday […]
BRITS – Former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe is a member in good standing at his Hartbeespoort Dam branch, the African National Congress in Madibeng said on Tuesday. “Lieutenant Brain Molefe is a member in good standing at Oom Gov Mbeki branch in Hartbeespoort Dam in the Madibeng sub-region. We are privilege to have one of […]
JOHANNESBURG, February 20 (ANA) – The South African Communist Party (SACP) on Monday said the appointment of former Eskom CEO as MP was “problematic” because its alliance partner, the ruling African National Congress (ANC), did not consult before it made the move. In a statement the SACP in the North West, complained: “We learnt about […]
JOHANNESBURG – Eskom will continue interrupting power supply to the eMalahleni and Msukaligwa municipalities in Mpumalanga over the weekend after the municipalities failed to pay outstanding debt, Eskom said on Saturday. On Saturday and Sunday the power supply to the municipalities would be interrupted from 8.30am to 11am and from 3pm to 5.30pm, the state […]
JOHANNESBURG, February 17 (ANA) – The Hospital Association of South Africa (Hasa) said on Friday that it was gravely concerned by Eskom’s decision to implement power cuts to two defaulting municipalities in Mpumalanga. Eskom announced on Thursday that it would start implementing scheduled bulk power supply interruptions in eMalahleni and Msukaligwa municipalities. The power supply […]
PARLIAMENT, February 17 (ANA) – The Legislature confirmed on Friday that former Eskom CEO Brian Molefe will soon be sworn in as a member of Parliament. “Parliament wishes to acknowledge the nomination of Mr Brian Molefe, to fill a vacancy on the North West list of ANC Members of Parliament, which is depleted,” spokesman Moloto Mothapo […]
JOHANNESBURG January 24 – Eskom will continue to “radically but fairly” transform coal procurement because this is a non-negotiable national imperative, Public Enterprise Minister Lynne Brown said on Tuesday. Eskom is currently embroiled in a bitter disagreement with one of its suppliers, Exxaro, over the diversified resources group’s black economic empowerment (BEE) policy. Last month, […]
JOHANNESBURG – The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) in North West on Wednesday called on the provincial government to investigate the municipalities who have failed to pay their Eskom electricity bills. Eskom interrupted its bulk electricity supply to the North West municipalities of Naledi, Lekwa-Teemane and Kgetlengrivier, affecting the towns of Vryburg, Stella, […]